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• Article | International Economic Review | May 2013

  Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan

  Tom Nicholas

  Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a strong boost to patent outcomes, especially in less developed prefectures, and they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents induced by the prizes permits a cost-benefit assessment of the prize competitions to be made.

  Keywords: patents; Prizes; Technological Innovation; System; Patents; Knowledge; Value; Cost vs Benefits; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Performance Effectiveness; Japan;

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  Nicholas, Tom. "Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan." International Economic Review 54, no. 2 (May 2013): 575–600.

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2013 version)

  Greylock Partners

  Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and David Lane

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  Hardymon, Felda, Tom Nicholas, and David Lane. "Greylock Partners." Harvard Business School Case 813-002, April 2013. (Revised from original January 2013 version.)

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• Course Overview Note | 2013 (Revised from original 2011 version)

  The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview

  Tom Nicholas

  This is a course overview note for The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. CMC is chronically organized. It starts in the late eighteenth century when America gained independence, spans the remarkable rise to industrial maturity during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and ends at the crossroads at which the United States currently stands. There are four modules: 1) THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2) THE EMERGENCE OF ORGANIZATION 3) PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR 4) TECHNOLOGICAL AND FINANCIAL REVOLUTIONS. Each covers a distinct period in business history but the themes overlap and these themes are collectively analyzed in a concluding session LESSONS FROM THE PAST. CMC is motivated by the idea that effective decision making in the current business environment crucially relies on a comprehensive appreciation of how things worked—or didn't work—in the past.

  Keywords: Business History; Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Transformation; Technology; Finance; Situation or Environment; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; United States;

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  Nicholas, Tom. "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 811-033, March 2013. (Revised from original January 2011 version.)

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